CS653 Mobile Computing Spring 2014 Spring 2014 Course Overview PG - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

CS653 Mobile Computing Spring 2014 Spring 2014

Course Overview  PG elective course, open to PG and UG students.  PG elective course, open to PG and UG students.  Prerequisites: a previous course in networking (CS348 or  Prerequisites: a previous course in networking (CS348 or CS641 or equivalent) CS641 or equivalent)  Topics in wireless communications and mobile systems  Topics in wireless communications and mobile systems (wireless LANs, cellular systems, sensor networks etc.) (wireless LANs, cellular systems, sensor networks etc.)

Grading  Course project – 30%  Course project – 30%  Will involve analyzing traces from wireless experiments, and  Will involve analyzing traces from wireless experiments, and running wireless simulations using network simulators running wireless simulations using network simulators  Will learn how to analyze and understand wireless systems  Will learn how to analyze and understand wireless systems  Requires basic scripting and coding skills  Requires basic scripting and coding skills  Teams of 3 students each  Teams of 3 students each  Monthly reviews with instructor to monitor progress  Monthly reviews with instructor to monitor progress  Final report, presentations, individual viva  Final report, presentations, individual viva

Grading  Course project – 30%  Course project – 30%  Short in-class quizzes – 20%  Short in-class quizzes – 20%  2 quizzes during the semester in class  2 quizzes during the semester in class  Dates will be announced in the previous lecture  Dates will be announced in the previous lecture  Mid-semester exam – 20%  Mid-semester exam – 20%  End-semester exam – 30%  End-semester exam – 30%

Course Content (1)  Overview of wireless and mobile systems (wireless LANs,  Overview of wireless and mobile systems (wireless LANs, cellular systems, sensor networks, etc.) and the challenges cellular systems, sensor networks, etc.) and the challenges therein. therein.  The radio channel and wireless physical layer design.  The radio channel and wireless physical layer design.  Medium access, multiplexing, link adaptation.  Medium access, multiplexing, link adaptation.  Multicast, opportunistic routing, flooding, and other techniques  Multicast, opportunistic routing, flooding, and other techniques exploiting wireless broadcast and receiver diversity. exploiting wireless broadcast and receiver diversity.  Multihop routing protocols, routing metrics.  Multihop routing protocols, routing metrics.  TCP behavior over wireless, other transport layer issues.  TCP behavior over wireless, other transport layer issues.

Course Content (2)  Solutions to handle mobility at various layers of the  Solutions to handle mobility at various layers of the networking stack, handling disconnected operations in networking stack, handling disconnected operations in applications. applications.  Energy efficiency in mobile systems.  Energy efficiency in mobile systems.  Mobile security.  Mobile security.  Localization and service discovery techniques.  Localization and service discovery techniques.  Smartphone-based mobile computation and applications.  Smartphone-based mobile computation and applications.  Future directions: dynamic spectrum access, heterogenuous  Future directions: dynamic spectrum access, heterogenuous networks, internet of things. networks, internet of things.

Readings  Slides from lectures will be available on the course web page.  Reference text book: Mobile Communications (2nd ed.). Jochen Schiller.  Research papers will also serve as references.